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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
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Immigrant health: selectivity and acculturation [PDF]
This paper explores some salient issues concerning immigrant health. Ethnic health disparities are inherently linked to immigration since ethnic identities often are traced to the country of origin of one's immigrant ancestors.
Douglas S. Massey +3 more
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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
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Integration Before Multiculturalism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite research which shows that, over the last 40 years, most Western states have steadily enhanced their multicultural policies, on the ground, reality tells a different story. Today, Western governments are closing their borders and reversing long‐standing programmes that welcomed newcomers, whereas immigrants continue to be targets of ...
Avigail Eisenberg
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Education and Learning in Studies of Nationalism: Anderson and Weber in Focus
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars of nationalism have pointed to the importance of educational institutions for the dissemination of national identities and associated sentimental attachments, yet how nationalism is learned within these educational institutions has received little attention.
Lejla Voloder
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The Demographic and Social Construction of Super‐Diversity
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract The concept of super‐diversity posits that waves of immigration over several decades expand population heterogeneity on multiple social, demographic, economic, political, and legal dimensions, creating a mosaic of social and cultural life in immigrant‐rich spaces.
James O'Donnell, James Raymer
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Voices from the minority: Understanding the acculturative experiences of British Shia Muslims
Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Objectives The aim of this research was to understand the acculturative experiences of British Shia Muslims, with hopes for practitioners to better understand how to support this population. Design Qualitative methodology was used, utilising semi‐structured interviews. Braun and Clarke's (Thematic analysis: A practical guide, Sage Publications
Mahdiyah Datoo, Sanaa Kadir
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Exploring acculturative stress and coping mechanisms among pregnant South Asian immigrants in Ontario, Canada: A qualitative study protocol. [PDF]
PLoS OneShahil-Feroz A +8 more
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We are social animals that seek to live a life that is, in some sense, shared with others. But what exactly do we want in wanting to live a shared life? First, I seek to show that this question is not as straightforward as it might initially appear. Second, I present an answer to this question, which makes reference to the thought that we have
James Laing
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Mapping the evidence on dietary acculturation post-migration among Indian immigrants in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK: a scoping review protocol. [PDF]
BMJ OpenBachani Singh S +3 more
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